• Shutdown over: The federal government is reopening its agencies after President Donald Trump signed the House-passed funding package last night to end the record 43-day shutdown. Before the bill to ...

Sahil Kapur explores the differing approaches to the government funding bill from the top two Democrats in Congress.

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

As President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House winds down, he has already transformed and upended the federal government. He has used political purges, mass federal layoffs and drastic ...

A shutdown could be felt the most acutely in Apache County, a northeastern part of the state with the largest share of ...

After 43 days, the federal government shutdown that grounded flights, threatened food aid programs and forced tens of thousands of federal workers to miss multiple paychecks is now over. On the ...

The Senate must pass the spending measures by the end of the day Jan. 30 to avoid a shutdown.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal will continue covering a wide range of government and politics stories in 2026, including the local economy amid declining tax revenues, immigration policy, homelessness ...

More than 317,000 employees stopped working for the federal government in 2025, according to the Office of Personnel Management, giving a glimpse into how much the nation's largest employer has ...